Sleeping with the enemy Coco Chanel's secret war
"The book pieces together how Coco Chanel became a German intelligence operative; how and why she was enlisted in a number of spy missions; how she escaped arrest in France after the war, despite her activities being known to the Gaullist intelligence network; how she fled to Switzerland for a nine-...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Metamorphosis : Gabrielle becomes Coco
- The scent of a woman
- Coco's golden duke
- A Hollywood divertissement
- Exit Paul, enter Spatz
- And then the war came
- Paris occupied : Chanel, a refugee
- Dincklage meets Hitler, Chanel becomes an Abwehr agent
- Checkmated by the Wertheimers
- A mission for Himmler
- Coco's luck
- Come back Coco.
